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Donne's Anniversaries and the Poetry of Praise: The Creation of a Symbolic Mode
By (Author) Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
821.3
Hardback
400
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
709g
In his occasional poetry, and especially in his two elegaic Anniversary poems, Donne created a special symbolic mode in seventeenth-century poetry of praise and compliment. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski's reading of the Anniversary poems recognizes them as complex mixed-genre works which weld together formal, thematic, and structural elements from the oc